Newsday.com - August 5 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solution - August 5 2016

Clues	Answers
''Aladdin'' prince	ALI
''Antiques Roadshow'' asset	PATINA
''Mad Men'' office skill	STENO
''The Crucible'' setting	SALEM
Apt to adhere	CLINGY
Army E-3	PFC
Aurora equivalent	EOS
Bath additive	OIL
Be welcoming	ASKIN
Bestia de rancho	TORO
Big name in hip-hop	WEST
Burn a tad	SINGE
Burn up	ENRAGE
Canterbury's county	KENT
Clever comment	MOT
Compass reading	SSE
Connoisseur	MAVEN
Deep ravine	GAP
Deliberate, for short	SLO
Discerns	SEES
Diversion, for short	REC
Door opener in ''The Shining''	AXE
Downfall	RUIN
Durable	BUILTTOLAST
Enchanted, in a way	SMITTEN
End of the third qtr	SEP
Essence of osso buco	VEAL
Fictional monomaniac	AHAB
Gets off-topic	STRAYS
Group with Arabic and Hebrew	SEMITIC
Hard to resist	ENTICING
Hotbed	DEN
How Ovid said ''I''	EGO
ID checkers' employer	TSA
Inner coverings	LINERS
Isn't indifferent	CARES
It's between Dallas and Austin	WACO
It's hard to judge	GRAYAREA

 

Clues	Answers
It's spotted in Namibia	CHEETAH
It's spotted in Namibia	HYENA
Kid's cry	MAA
Large fair	EXPO
Meas. of blocking	SPF
More or less	CIRCA
Neutral pronoun	ITS
Nimble	DEFT
Of interest to aesthetes	ARTISTIC
Open to influence	AMENABLE
Oral-health advocate	ADA
Ordain	DECREE
Pare down	LESSEN
Predecessor of Ban	ANNAN
Protracted attacks	SIEGES
Put to the test	ESSAY
Rachel, in two recent ''Sherlock Holmes'' films	IRENE
Reckon, with ''up''	TOT
Region by the Rhine	BLACKFOREST
Repaired, as some shoes	HEELED
River to the English Channel	SEINE
Secure, as a helmet	SNAPON
Sidekick	AIDE
Significant participant	PLAYER
State of obscurity	NOWHERE
Steinbeck surname	JOAD
Subject to strain	TRY
The other side	ENEMY
Ultimate source of sour grapes	AESOP
Unwelcome economic news	BLEAKFORECAST
Verbal attack	JAB
Virus victims: Abbr	PCS
Was straggling	LAGGED
Water cooler	ICE
What ''agenda'' starts with	SCHWA
What stores call ''shrinkage''	THEFT
What's often broken on the field	TIE
When McKinley was reelected	MCM